[DRE-maint] Bug#730905: ruby-fastercsv: FTBFS: Hard dependency on ruby1.8

[David Suárez]

Source: ruby-fastercsv
Version: 1.5.5-1
Severity: serious
Tags: jessie sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20131128 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part (hopefully):
>  fakeroot debian/rules binary
> dh binary --buildsystem=ruby --with ruby
>    dh_testroot -O--buildsystem=ruby
>    dh_prep -O--buildsystem=ruby
>    dh_auto_install -O--buildsystem=ruby
> /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb.rb:17: warning: setting Encoding.default_external
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/psych_tree.rb:31: warning: method redefined; discarding old visit_String
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/psych_tree.rb:4: warning: previous definition of visit_String was here
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/psych_tree.rb:39: warning: method redefined; discarding old register
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/psych_tree.rb:12: warning: previous definition of register was here
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/psych_tree.rb:43: warning: method redefined; discarding old format_time
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/psych_tree.rb:16: warning: previous definition of format_time was here
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/syck_hack.rb:115: warning: method redefined; discarding old to_s
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/syck_hack.rb:44: warning: previous definition of to_s was here
>   Entering dh_ruby --install
> install -d /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/ruby-fastercsv/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby
> install -D -m644 /«PKGBUILDDIR»/lib/fastercsv.rb /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/ruby-fastercsv/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/fastercsv.rb
> install -D -m644 /«PKGBUILDDIR»/lib/faster_csv.rb /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/ruby-fastercsv/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/faster_csv.rb
> dh_installchangelogs -pruby-fastercsv /«PKGBUILDDIR»/CHANGELOG upstream
> /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb.rb:52:in `system': can't convert nil into String (TypeError)
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb.rb:52:in `run'
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb/dh_ruby.rb:138:in `run_tests_for_version'
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb/dh_ruby.rb:129:in `block in run_tests'
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb/dh_ruby.rb:128:in `each'
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb/dh_ruby.rb:128:in `run_tests'
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb/dh_ruby.rb:72:in `install'
> 	from /usr/bin/dh_ruby:69:in `block (2 levels) in <main>'
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1360:in `call'
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1360:in `block in parse_in_order'
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1347:in `catch'
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1347:in `parse_in_order'
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1341:in `order!'
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1432:in `permute!'
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1453:in `parse!'
> 	from /usr/bin/dh_ruby:73:in `<main>'
>  -I/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb/test_runner.rb
> dh_auto_install: dh_ruby --install /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/ruby-fastercsv returned exit code 1
> make: *** [binary] Error 1

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/ftbfs-logs/2013/11/28/ruby-fastercsv_1.5.5-1_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.